Any Suggestions for Sharepoint deployment

[msartes]

Hi!

I am presently engaged in a project where the site collection of the sharepoint server 2007 application is a customized collection. We will be deploying the said application using the "app.wsp" to MOSS2007. I have an out of the box webpart created in another MOSS application which I would like to export it to the new sharepoint app. The file extension generated by for this webpart is a .dwp file. I tried using adding the .dwp web part to the solution file created for the deployment but the webpart is never deployed with the solution. Any suggestions?

[TheCPUWizard]

Did you follow the process detailed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507633.aspx

[msartes]

Yup.

I added under the DWPFiles/DWPFile an element for the dwp webpart I wanted installed along with the solution. However, the dwp file never got installed. I am now trying to create a feature so I can hopefully install the dwp file.

But this is kindda tricky since the formatting for the feature for dwp/webparts are kindda diffrent.

Does anyone have a sample feature code that installs a dwp file into MOSS?

Thanks!